What is Syntax?

1) What we study in syntax 2) Nature of syntactic knowledge

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Universal Grammar

1) Universal Grammar (UG) 2) Evidence of the existence of UG

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Sentence: Functional Definition

1) Sentence: Functional level 2) Subject - Predicate

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Sentence: Definition by Form

1) Sentence: Definition by Form 2) Part of Speech

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Phrases and Constituency

1) Phrases 2) Constituency tests 3) Phrase Structure Rules

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Phrase Structure Rules (1)

1) Phrase Structure Rules

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Phrase Structure Rules (2)

1) Phrase Structure Rules

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Clausal Hierarchy, Finiteness

Clausal Hierarchy

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Form vs. Function

1) Structural ambiguity 2) Form-function mismatches

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Notations for Tree Structure

1) Notations for Tree Structure 2) C-command 3) Evidence for c-command

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Binding Theory

1) Binding Theory: Another piece of evidence for c-command

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Binding Theory & Theta Theory (1)

1) Binding Theory (Part II) 2) Thematic roles

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Theta Theory (2)

1) Theta-grids 2) Theta Criterion 3) Some exercises on Theta Theory

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X’ - Theory (1)

1) Some problems for PSRs 2) Introduction to X’-theory

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X’ - Theory (2)

1) X’-theory: Complement vs. Adjuncts

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X’ - Theory (3)

1) X’-Theory: VP 2) X’-Theory: Structural ambiguity

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X’ - Theory (4)

1) X’-Theory: TP & CP 2) X’-Theory: NegP

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DP-hypothesis

1) X’-Theory: DP-hypothesis

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Exercises: Drawing X’-tree

1) Exercises: Drawing X’-tree

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Head Movement (1)

1) Definition of Movement 2) Two Levels of Representations 3) Head Movement

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Head Movement (2)

1)Cross-linguistic Variations on Head Movement 2) Negation in Head Movement 3) Do-support as Last Resort

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Head Movement (3)

1) Tense, Aspect, and Voice 2) Distributions of Aspectual Auxiliaries

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Head Movement (4)

1) T-to-C Movement in Yes-No Questions

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DP Movement (1)

1) DP-Movement 2) Projection Principle

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DP Movement (2)

1) The EPP 2) Passivization

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DP Movement (3)

1) Case Theory 2) Burzio’s Generalization

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DP Movement (4)

1) Unaccusative vs. Unergative 2) Subject to Object Raising 3) Exercises

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Wh-Movement (1)

1) Wh-movement

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Wh-Movement (2)

1) DP-movement vs. Wh-movement 2) Embedded questions 3) Relative clauses

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Wh-Movement (3)

1) Islands 2) Subjacency

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Wh-Movement (4)

1) Minimal Link Condition 2) Exercises on Movement

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Stylistic Movement

1) Stylistic Movement

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Syntactic Argumentation

1) Hypothesis-Falsification Approach 2) Occam’s Razor

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Control Theory (1)

1) Control Theory 2) Null Argument PRO (PRO Theorem)

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Control Theory (2)

1) Obligatory Control & Non-Obligatory Control 2) Exceptional Case Marking

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Control Theory (3)

1) Exercises : Control Theory

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